Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Across the front, it declares in italic script, “I’m too pretty to do math”. While some may see it as a joke, it is sparking ...

One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At least, that’s what he was supposed to be doing. When I glanced at his screen, ...

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival ...

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and fat-shaming questions included on ninth-grade Algebra I quizzes, according to ...

Over the past couple of months, several researchers have begun making the same provocative claim: They used generative-AI tools to solve a previously unanswered math problem. The most extreme promises ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 2 of “Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix. In one week, we’ll have all the answers. But for now, we’ve got a lot of questions.

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...